Aaron Labrecque

@DaddyWarpig Pineapple and non-pineapple people, we must unite to destroy this abomination.

Hell is too good for you.

@Huff4Congress Avatar the anime is worth the watch (but not the sequel IMO). Its not the best ever, but a solid B+ or A-. Never watched the movie, never will.

Avatar. Avatar. I know of these. I’ve never seen a full episode or movie all the way through, but I know that surely many people have. … except I have not once heard a single person ever talked about either Avatar. Not online, not in real life. It’s so weird.

@veiled_sakura God forgives. Things tend to go haywire in Bright Week when we lower our guard.

So, I'm gonna let y'all in on a not so well kept secret of mine I'm diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, as well as ADHD, both managed with meds The reason I mention this is, I feel like I was doing so good with the BPD being well controlled all throughout Lent and Pascha. And the vast majority of the time, it is very well controlled in general. But seems like as soon as Bright Week started (right around the same time the pope really started going downhill), I started lashing out here on X at times towards those who defended him. Given, everybody with a right mind was rightfully angry, but I still felt that I could have been more charitable at those times even with said anger. So, idk. Maybe this is part of getting accustomed to the shitshows that go down on here Nonetheless, I am greatly ashamed. Lord have mercy on me 😔🙏

Your best bet is to go to an Orthodox service and talk to a priest about any questions you've got. They're pretty much all more knowledgeable than me. This website will help you find a legit one, and as some are still mainly Greek or Russian language, can help with finding English ones. assemblyofbishops.org/directories/pa…

@AML_579 @matthewdmarsden @realmikolson I'll look into this, Aaron. Thanks for the clue. New to me. And I appreciate your reaching for Scripture to support the position, though I believe that verse is not much help for the case.

Btw, the more I engage with Roman Catholicism online, the more I’m convinced Catholics simply don’t read or study their Bibles. It shows in posts like this. They’re like that one kid in class giving a book report who didn’t actually read the book, yet thinks his analysis is spot on. Meanwhile, everyone who did the homework can clearly tell he didn’t.

@FanDuel @PitchingNinja Why no Felix? (I may be slightly biased)

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OK, be specific, them trace the remnant through history. The church is a 'city set on a hill' and should be visible throughout history. Name names. Who was the remnant in 200? 500? Etc. Trace the 'true Christians' through history. Gnostics? Donatists? Aryans? I am being broad to try to narrow things down as I try to learn what you personally believe. I cannot do that when you continue to be vague and evasive.

@AML_579 @pitbullpatriot3 It hasn’t failed. There is always a remnant. And there always will be. Again, you are speaking in LOTS of generalities and clearly have an agenda. The Word is always alive.

There is a lot of people sliding in my replies trying to convince me of some false teachings from the Catholic Church. I don't pray to Mary or angels and I know works will not get me into heaven, only faith in Jesus will. You can save your time and breath because I'm 100% sold on Jesus Christ! He is the Son of God who died for my sins and makes me right in the eyes of God! Bye now!

So if I am reading your response correctly, Christ founded a church & promised it would never fall. Then He let it fall, and it wasn't until Luther that He bothered to restore it. Do you realize that that makes God a liar? And that YOU, 2000 years after the fact, living in a completely different culture, know more about Paul's teaching then the men who studied under him. Doyou understand how arrogant and prideful that makes you sound? You admit that God sends holy people to every generation. But then you ignore every single one unless they argee with you. Do yourself a favor. Find an Orthodox church and attend a service. Talk to a priest and learn the history of Christianity. Don't gloss over 1500 years like most protestants do. Sincerely ask God to reveal the truth to you.

Yes and yes That’s a very specific non-specific question. There are essential doctrinal issues and secondary doctrinal issues. It’s important we agree on essential doctrinal issues. Of course God raises up people to guide his people. These would be people that have a heart for him and get essential doctrine right.

One of the oldest prayers we've ever found is a papyrus from the 100s AD. it is a hymn to Mary. Some of the oldest Christian graffiti is at shrines and churches (they all have icons by the way) are prayers asking for saintly intercession. The entire church from the beginning used and accepted the validity of intercessory prayer from the beginning. You do not call the Mother of God blessed? That is literal honor and praise commanded in the Bible. "For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed." ~Luke 1:48

@matthewdmarsden @realmikolson If you are praying to, bowing your head to, praising out loud about, honoring above other women alive or dead, and doing so in a church or in your heart... ...you can call that whatever you want to. It is worship. And it is anti-biblical.

@Jconley1952 @matthewdmarsden @MorEdge_Insight On this we can agree.

@AML_579 @matthewdmarsden @MorEdge_Insight Think I’ll watch the Mariners game instead.

If the Catholic Church is to survive even the next 2-3 years, the Vatican needs to do whatever is necessary to replace this Pope as soon as possible before he does any more damage. The things he is coming out with are as if he’s never read the bible. It’s like he’s walking around with a Quran and a Marxism handbook with him

There can only be one truth. Either the Holy Spirit has one source, the Father, or He has two and is inferior to both the Father and the Son. The 'learning' from Charlemagne is merely rehashed wording considered and rejected ai 1 Constantinople. Their main purpose was to differentiate between their little empire and the real deal in the East.

@AML_579 @matthewdmarsden @MorEdge_Insight 7/ I don't think it's right to say that the Cath broke off from the Orth, though. Better to say the schism caused the Great Church to divide into two traditions. There's a great deal of Cath/Orth dialogue on what to do about the filioque and how it's to be understood.  So there

@Jconley1952 @matthewdmarsden @MorEdge_Insight That is the point. It's telling you the super basic, RC POV of history, not the real thing. Go read the original sources.

@AML_579 @matthewdmarsden @MorEdge_Insight It was freshman religion.

@Jconley1952 @matthewdmarsden @MorEdge_Insight They are biased. Go read the original sources.

@AML_579 @matthewdmarsden @MorEdge_Insight Those RCs. What charlatans!

So it appears like, except for baptism we are in agreement. You still have not answered my original questions. 1) Did Christ found a Church? Did He promise His church would always win out in the end? 2) is it more likely that your interpretation of Scripture is correct, or that of the men who studied under the Apostles (Clenent of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Pappias, etc.) Why? 3) Throughout the OT, God continually sent holy men and women to guide His people and keep them on the right path. Why would He change his MO? Or, did Godvraise up these holy people in every generation after Christ, just like He did before?

Paul is not against baptism. It just isn’t required. The Trinity is explicit. The word “Trinity” just isn’t used. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (The Word is Jesus) John 1:1 “So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be to you; just as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” John 20:21-22 “And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,” Matthew 28:18-19

Trinity is an example of an accretion most prots accept. It isn't explicit in the Bible. The threefold hierarchy is something explicitly in the Bible most prots reject, and definitely not the further details recorded in Clenent, Ignatius, the Didache or elsewhere. Go read about the Arc, the Bronze Serpent, and the Temples ang get back to me on that. Paul is against idols, which are not the same. Where does Paul speak against baptism? He himself baptized people. A household is the extended family & slaves (and their families) it's virtually impossible that Cornelius's, Lydia's, AND the Phillipian Jailor's households were all child-free. I'd like to see the verse where Paul says you don't need baptism for salvation or even don't baptize babies. They do not exist. There is a difference between necromancy (Saul's sin when he goes to the Witch of Endor) and praying to saints or for the dead. You cut several books from the Christian Bible. 2 Macabees 28, part of the Christian Bible, is crystal clear that prayer for the dead is a good thing. God is the God of the living and not of the dead. His saints are alive in heaven and stand before His throne. Paul calls the saints a great cloud of witnesses. As we are supposed to ask each other to pray for us, intercessory prayer is a reasonable inference along the lines of Trinitarian phrasing. I appreciate the substantive reply, thank you.

You toss out so much, and it’s almost ALL wrong. The main one is Jesus talks explicitly about the Trinity. The fact he didn’t name it doesn’t have anything to do with anything. Trinity is our word for it. You’re wrong about “icons”. Both the OT and NT are crystal clear on that. Paul especially. You’re wrong about Baptism. Again, Paul talks about this. People like to point to James but don’t realize the point James is making (Christian’s do Christian things). There is zero about praying to anyone else or asking others about the dead. Samuel cleared that up in the OT when Saul brought him back. I could list verses for all of these but I’d end up with a mini-book.

Are you a trinitarian Christian? That word isn't even in the Bible, but reasonably inferred from it. The threefold hierarchy is in there too. Episcopos (bishop), Presbyteros (priest), and diaconos (deacon) are all in the NT. Icons go all the way back to Exodus, go read the description of the Arc of the Covenant or God's commands for the building of His Temple. (2nd Commandment should be read 'no idols' not 'no graven images') If you cared to learn about the culture Christ lived and taught in, you know that when the Apostles baptized 'entire households' it almost certainly included the children and infants in the household (and that it is virtually impossible for there to have been none) Baptism as necessary is literally in the Bible in plain sight. The saints are the great cloud of witnesses and God is 'the God of the living.' We can ask them to pray for us, as easily as we ask our living friends to do so. Prayer for the dead is a little harder as you protestants gave the Bible a haircut, but it's in 2 Macabees IIRC. Did I miss anything? Please give a substantive reply. No more vague one-liners. I don't have time for you if you won't give a real reply.

@AML_579 @pitbullpatriot3 It either is or it isn’t, bro.

@DromedariusGB @pitbullpatriot3 Yes, pretty much all are in or can reasonably be inferred from the Christian Canon of Scripture. You as a protestant have the Jewish Canon as altered by those who rejected Christ. Luther rejected a lot because the Bible darred to contradict him.

@AML_579 @pitbullpatriot3 Because you’re listing a bunch of stuff that isn’t in the Bible.

Yeah, freshman history is the most rigorous field of study ever. Your biased catholic teachers fed you the RC propaganda. Go read for yourselves the primary sources. It was considered and rejected at 1 Constinople. Read St Photios and St Mark of Ephesus for the Orthodox explanation of why it's wrong. Trent is probably a decent spot for the RC position.

@AML_579 @matthewdmarsden @MorEdge_Insight I don’t remember the Filioque Controversy being a hot topic in my 9th grade religion class at my Marianist HS.

Literary hyperbole. Exaggeration for effect. Other than super basic things prots disbelieve just about everything the early Church Fathers taught. Now you are a diverse lot, but some don't even believe in the Trinity! And protestant-adjascents (ex. JWs) literally teach Christ isn’t God, but merely God's first-created being. Early Church Fathers taught: infant baptism, baptism as necessary for salvation, the three-fold hierarchy, intercession of saints, prayer for the dead, liturgical and sacramental worship, icons, confession to priests, etc. etc. All of those are rejected my large swaths of protestants & some are near universal. Why are you correct and the men taught directly by the Apostles wrong?

@AML_579 @pitbullpatriot3 I have no idea what “got absolutely everything wrong” means. Even the Mormons got lucky and hit on a few things.

@matthewdmarsden @MorEdge_Insight 1000. They didn't exist before they fell away with the Apostolic church over the filioque heresy & the Pope's power tripping.

@MorEdge_Insight I don’t think the Catholic Church, which has existed for 2000 years, needs your advice on how it will survive.